We've had the smaller kit at work for a while, and it's stood up to quite a bit of abuse, so I figured for £20, it saves me a lot of hassle for the odd big hole I need to make.
Don't forget to pick up half a dozen paint mixers...
Used to be no end of surplus electronic shops in Tottenham Court Road. Used to buy large bags of mixed resistors and capacitors from them. Probably back in mid 1970's .
Seymour Models sounds like an old fashioned porn shop!Anyone remember Odion Radio in Harrow? I used to work in the model shop next door, Seymour Models. Now a poxy office block.
That's one I haven't heard before.
Well there was an impressive stash of mags down in the basement...
and can put the information to memory for future use.
I was just thinking what a great thread this is. Often we see tools and items we didn't know about, and can put the information to memory for future use.
Glad to see it arrived safe and sound. My idea of bolting it to 2 pallets for stability was correct - but it looks like there is a bolt missing?
And round the corner in Soho - Lisle Street and Little Newport Street. Brave walking past 'St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin', and if you survived that there was Smiths on the same side - good for aluminium chassis's and occasional bouts of genuine surplus. I bought a Cossor 1035 oscilloscope there in 1970 and trusted a black cab to take it home for me unaccompanied - glad to say that it arrived !
'Model - Please walk up' - were they model planes, ships or what - they never did say
